12-11-2008, 03:48 PM
I do know that Suetonius has been considered a bit of a muck spreader with his 12 Caesars, indeed he did not publish until after the death of Domitian or he would have been in bother. The translation by Philemon Holland gives us [So he put himself on his journey clad in his coat-armour, with his dagger hanging down from about his neck just before his breast;] I know that you are correct in the dictionary sence of a baldric, what I am trying to get across is that if his dagger was carried in such a way was there also one wonders straps from the bottom rings that tied around the chest to anchor the scabbard.
Brian Stobbs
